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hello Sir,
hereby I provide you a question from the Kaplan test book.
The predicted selling price for a product has been set at $56 per unit. Mark up on cost is 25% and the material cost for the product is estimated to be $16 before allowing for additional materials to allow a shrinkage for 20% (fro every 10kg go material going in only 8kg comes out).
if labor is the only other cost and 2 hours are needed what is the most the business can pay per hour if the cost gap is to be avoided?
I calculated the target cost by doing this: $56/1.25= $44.8. However, I am struggling to understand why the material cost is $20=($16*10kg)/8kg. Could you provide me some assistant about how the material cost turned out?
For every 8kg for production they will need to buy 10kg (the other 2 kg are lost).
So the cost of every 8 kg available for production will be 10 x $16 = $160.
Therefore the cost per kg is 160/8 = $20.
Thank you so much Sir for your prompt response.
You are welcome 🙂
